‘words (λόγοι, logoi) of THE WORD (Του Λόγου, Tou Logou)’ponders the Sacred Scriptures, the Sacred Liturgy,Fathers of the Church and RCIAas a response to the call for a New Evangelizationthat by the grace of God the Holy Spiritall may encounterGod the Son, Jesus the Incarnate Wordand be drawn in love as adopted children toGod our Father Who is Merciful Love.

ORDINARY TIME, Week 33: Wednesday

“While they were listening to him speak, he proceeded to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God would appear there immediately.” (Luke 19:11.)

“The scope of the parable briefly represents the whole meaning of the dispensation that was for us and of the mystery of Christ from the beginning even to the end. The Word, being God, became man. He was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, because of this he is also called a servant. He is and was free born, because the Father unspeakably begot him. He is also God, transcending all in nature and in glory and surpassing the things of our estate, or rather even the whole creation, by his incomparable fullness.

By nature God, he is said to have received from the Father the name that is above every name when he became man. We might then believe in him as God and the King of all, even in the flesh that was united to him.

When he had endured the passion on the cross for our sakes and had abolished death by the resurrection of his body from the dead, he ascended to the Father and became like a man journeying to a far country. Heaven is a different country from earth, and he ascended so that he might receive a kingdom for himself…. How does he who reigns over all with the Father ascend to him to receive a kingdom? The Father also gives this to the Son according to his becoming man. When he ascended into heaven, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,1 waiting until his enemies are put under his feet.” (Commentary on Luke, Homily 128)

Collect

Grant us, we pray, O Lord our God,
the constant gladness
of being devoted to You,
for it is full and lasting happiness
to serve with constancy
the Author of all that is good.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
Who lives and reigns with You
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

Glory to the Father
and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be forever. Amen

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Fr Mark is a Roman Catholic diocesan priest of the Philadelphia Archdiocese teaching full-time as an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and as an Instructor in the Graduate Counseling Program at Holy Family University in Philadelphia, PA. Having earned a doctorate in Sacred Theology under the guidance of the late Fr Ambrose Eßzer OP at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Rome), Fr Mark also serves the Church as an adjunct professor at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary teaching Patrology and Sacramental Theology. In October 2016, he began serving a term as a consultant to the Communications Committee, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. When not engaged in teaching, he pursues scholarship in the areas of Teilhard de Chardin, Eastern Patrology, Sacred Scripture, Liturgy, RCIA and the New Evangelization. He also devotes some time to increasing skills in the areas of html5, php, mysql, Wordpress and apps as an Apple® and Helix (Macintosh database) developer. Over the years, he has dabbled in the ‘man cave’ of his cabinetry and welding tool shop and, as a former electrician and boilermaker, did volunteer work for a non-profit housing organization.